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			<h1>Tide pool trip</h1>
			<p>Day 00458: Tuesday, 2016 June 07</p>
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	When we arrived at the school this morning, I signed in as a volunteer using the school&apos;s computer system.
	My name was on the list of people that one could sign in as, so my background check must have come back clean.
	It would have been nice if the school had had the courtesy to actually tell me that though, instead of waiting for me to try to sign in.
	At the very least, they should have sent me an email soon after performing the background check.
	My mother had to attend a meeting before the field trip, so I retrieved the student lunches from the cafeteria and waited in the classroom on my laptop.
	I thought that I&apos;d have time to get a bit of work done, but the meeting didn&apos;t drag on like I thought that it would.
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	As we boarded the bus, I reminded my mother to bring medication for one of her students as they&apos;d asked me to, then took a seat.
	The seating on the bus was tiny, seeing as it was built only to accommodate elementary schoolers, and the trip was quite noisy.
	The children talked amongst themselves in a deafening roar, though once we&apos;d reached our destination, one of the teachers remarked about how quiet that they&apos;d been.
	I guess that they&apos;re usually even louder! My mother said that they&apos;d work on deciding who lead what groups on the bus, but then assigned me no group once we got there.
	Apparently, more volunteers came than had let us know that they&apos;d be coming, so there were too few groups for the volunteers present.
	My mother had to have known this before I&apos;d boarded the bus.
	Why didn&apos;t they let me know so I could stay behind? My presence on the trip was completely pointless, I wasn&apos;t able to help at all, and I wasted half the day at the tide pools when I could have been catching up on stuff that I&apos;m behind on - or I could have even just rested my knees.
	The uneven terrain wasn&apos;t good on my sore knees, and my upper left leg is now sore.
	Once we got back to the school, my mother had another meeting and no task for me, so I walked home.
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